Packing for bottles or glasses.



PATENTED FEB. 3, 1908.

D. H. RUSSELL. PACKING FOR BOTTLES 0R GLASSES.

APPLICATION Hum NOV. 1 0, 1902.

no MODEL.

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DANIEL HYLAND RUSSELL, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

PACKING FOR BOTTLES OR GLASSES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent .No. 719,612, dated February 8, 1903. Application filed November 10, 1902. Serial No. 130,760. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL HYLAND Ros SELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing for Bottles or Glasses; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to means for packing bottles and glasses together, to the end that a drinking-glass may be shipped with a bot tle without danger of breakage and with no more trouble or expense than is involved in the shipment of the bottle alone.

The invention consists in the parts and combinations thereof hereinafter set forth and claimed. V

In order to make the invention more clearly understood, I have shown in the accompanying drawings means for carrying the same into practical effect Without limiting my improvements in their useful applications to the exact construction which for the purpose of illustration 1 have delineated.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is averticalsectional view, partly in elevation, of a packing means for a bottle and glass embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line H 11, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the carton, which is to be interposed between the glass and bottle in its original or unfolded form. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of the carton in the form which it assumes in use.

Referring to the drawings, A is a case, ordinarily of wood, having sides 1, bottom 2, and top 3.

B is the bottle,which is usually surrounded at the sides by a packing material 4, such as a three-ply cardboard having its middle layer corrugated in a known manner. 5 isasheet of similar material interposed between the bottom of the bottle and the bottom piece 2 of the case.

0 is the drinking-glass, arranged in an inverted position on the top of the bottle, as shown, so as to inclose the bottle mouth or seal.

D is the carton, made of the described material and having a central part 6 and wings or extensions 7. This carton is cut in one piece from a sheet of the material, so that the wings 7 are all integral with the central part 6. Said wings are preferably four in numher, as shown; but my invention is not lim ited to any precise number of such wings. In packing the bottle the carton is applied with its central part 6 over the bottle-mouth, with the wings 7 extending horizontally therefrom, and the glass is applied with its edge around and outside of such central part and bearing on the inner parts of the wings. The glass is then pressed firmly down, bringing the parts into the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and forming the carton into the shape shown in Fig. 4. The bottle and glass are then inserted into the case A, with the bottom of the glass bearing directly againstthe top 3,and the open side of the case closed and secured. If the top 3 isthe coveror last part of the case to be applied, the bottle and glass areinserted endwise into the case and the part 3 pressed down on the bottom of the glass and secured to the sides 1. The parts are of such relative dimensions and the carton of such resilient character that the wings 7 tend to spring outward in all directions against the glass. The inner surfaces 8 of the wings bear on the bot-. tle-neck, while the glass is engaged interiorly by the angles 9 of the folded carton, Fig. 2.

The carton applied as described forms an of ficient protection against longitudinal shocks to both the glass and bottle, the tendency of the folded wings 7 being to force the glass oil from the bottle-neck against the case portion 3.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a packing for glasses and bottles combined, the winged carton of thick resilient material interposed between the bottle-neck and the glass with its wings at the sides of the bottle-neck, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the case, the bottle and inverted glass therein, and the Winged carton interposed between the bottle-neck and the interior of the glass, the bottom of glasses, of three-ply corrugated cardboard the glass bearing on the top of the case, subhaving the central part 6 and the wings 7 instantially as described. tegral with the central part, substantially as 3. lhe combination of the bottle, theindescribed. 15 5 verted glass thereon, and the winged cart-on In testimony whereof I affix my signature folded as described and having its arms bearin presence of two witnesses. ing at their interior faces 8 on the exterior of the bottle-neck and their angles 9 bearing on DANIEL HYLAND RUSSELL the interior of the glass, substantially as de- Witnesses: 1o scribed. H. O. HENNINGS,

4. The carton for packing bottles and VINCENT COX. 

